Staff Site Reliability Engineer
NinjaTrader is a futures trading provider offering integrated desktop, web, and mobile trading platforms alongside futures brokerage services. It serves new and experienced active futures traders with market access, charting, simulation, education, and support.
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About NinjaTrader
NinjaTrader provides futures brokerage and proprietary trading-platform services for retail and professional traders. Its offering includes access to global futures markets, trading and charting tools, market data, simulated trading, risk-management features, developer customization through a C# framework, education, and customer support. NinjaTrader Clearing, LLC provides brokerage services as a CFTC-registered futures commission merchant and NFA member.
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About the Role
You will lead the SRE function for trading systems and set technical direction across reliability initiatives. You will troubleshoot production issues, participate in on-call operations, automate deployments and incident response, establish monitoring and service objectives, manage infrastructure with Terraform, and apply security and compliance practices across deployments.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in DevOps Site Reliability Engineering or Platform Engineering
- Expertise with Kubernetes Docker and container orchestration
- Hands-on experience with GitHub Actions or equivalent CI/CD tools
- Proficiency in Python Bash or Go
- Experience with Ansible Terraform or Helm
- Hands-on experience with AWS GCP or Azure
- In-depth knowledge of cloud networking security and identity management
- Knowledge of Prometheus Grafana Datadog or similar monitoring and observability tools
- Strong collaboration communication and leadership skills
- Ability to influence technical decisions and mentor junior engineers
- Trading industry experience
- Contributions to open-source projects
Responsibilities
- Set technical direction for reliability initiatives and mentor engineers
- Analyze troubleshoot and remediate production issues
- Participate in the weekly 12x7 on-call rotation and weekend deployments
- Perform root cause analysis and remediate production incidents
- Build tools to automate repetitive tasks deployments and incident responses
- Design monitoring and alerting systems and track SLIs and SLOs
- Use Infrastructure as Code to provision scale and manage platforms
- Collaborate with Product Engineering Operations and cross-functional teams
- Implement security and compliance practices including SOC 2 and PCI DSS
Benefits
- 401k plan with up to a 3.5% company match
- 23 days of annual paid time off
- Seven paid holidays
- 20 additional flex remote days annually
- Five company-wide office-optional weeks tied to major holidays
- One service day annually
- Paid parental bonding leave
- Health vision and dental coverage
- Life and disability insurance fully covered by NinjaTrader